So far, so good at Cisco Networkers in Barcelona this week. Despite spirits being a little tempered by the worldwide financial crisis, attendance seems to be quite good and we are noticing a radical shift in what enterprises and service providers are trying to accomplish with their networks. One topic that’s a bit been very [...]
Archive | January, 2009
Comcast and Cox use QoS policies to relieve congestion
We recently praised Comcast for coming up with a solution to congestion while remaining platform and application agnostic. To recap: Comcast’s new policy is to lower the class of service on packets sent or requested for those users who are currently using more than 70% of their bandwidth over a 15 minute interval only during [...]
The SuperAgent/Cisco NAM Tag Team
Today we just put out a press release and went live with a Web page announcing our integration of SuperAgent application response time monitoring into the Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM). The integration combines NetQoS SuperAgent’s ability to baseline and analyze application performance across the entire network with the NAM’s high-resolution troubleshooting capabilities and data [...]
Riverbed & Mazu, Bluecoat & Lancope, Lenny & Squiggy.
By Steve Harriman Last Tuesday, Riverbed, known primarily for Steelhead, its WAN optimization controller (WOC), acquired Mazu, known primarily for its network behavior analysis detection (NBAD) tool Mazu Profiler. Riverbed said that they’re planning to integrate Mazu’s technology into their own products. Similarly, Blue Coat, another WAN Optimization vendor, announced earlier today that they are [...]
Extol MSC Berhad to distribute NetQoS Performance Center in Malaysia
The world is a small place – and getting smaller. Nobody knows this more than the people who work in networking and IT. We’re the people who are trying to connect people and bring them together. (Well, us and various diplomatic corps, but it’s a totally different type of bringing people together.) This is all [...]
Cisco moves into servers.
It may not have made the front page because it came out on Tuesday when there was another news event that overshadowed it, but the New York Times had some big news in IT anyway – Cisco is moving into the server market. The philosophy of the move comes down to an industry idea that [...]
Maybe we need another Internet just to handle the Obama traffic…
Via Twitter, John Taylor, a “public policy guy” at Sprint, “tweeted” a few interesting facts about Sprint’s capacity during the Inauguration: Just in: Data on Sprint’s performance during #inaug09. We broke records for a normal day of calls, SMS and data by 6:00 a.m.! Sprint was the busiest between 11 ET & noon when traffic [...]
Comcast finally takes the high road
Throughout this blog, we’ve continually knocked Comcast for going after users who download large amounts of data, when the real problem is bandwidth at any particular time, and for going after BitTorrent users, when download protocols are independent of bandwidth. Both seemed to us, at the time, to have nothing to do with congestion control, [...]
Inauguration Quick Notes:
Just some quick notes on the inauguration – Cellphone providers are rolling out portable cells to handle the traffic of phone calls, photos and 3G/Edge data. Major bottlenecks expected in DC area WiFi networks. Took a sneak peek at MSNBC’s streaming coverage (though I really aughn’t). Already – 90 minutes before showtime, the video plays, [...]
Sign-up for NetQoS Symposium ’09
If you can only go to one NetQoS Symposium at Barton Creek Resort this April 19th through 22nd, make it THIS NetQoS Symposium at Barton Creek Resort this April 19th through 22nd. If you’re not familiar with Symposium, allow me to explain it a bit – once a year, NetQoS gathers together some of our [...]
History on the airwaves instead of on the pipes
The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States will occur on Tuesday, Jan. 20th, at 12PM Eastern Standard Time. This, you may have noticed, is smack dab in the middle of the workday. Streaming video problems, anyone? The last time we had a presidential inauguration, it was January 2005. YouTube [...]
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XP, Virtually
An interesting post over at Slashdot pointed me over to a Network World story by Mitchell Ashley about how Windows 7 wouldn’t be a compelling upgrade from Windows XP. The interesting aspect is that Ashley goes on to suggest that perhaps the idea of OSes might become irrelevant if you move to thin clients connected [...]